Back with another dumb question ...

[jeager]

:cry: Dumb question 10 million and one -- When a console tty (i.e. tty03 ) freezes, how does one go about resetting it to function once again without a reboot?

TIA

[Wildheart]

you can restart your x server by hitting Ctrl-Alt-Backspace . its not technically a reboot.

[jeager]

Doesn't work on the plain vanilla mingetty 'F-Key-1, 3, 4' and so on console terminals of SuSe Linux 8.1.

Thanks anyway.

Anyone else?

[comtux]

You could try to

Example in the console
------------ -------------------
ps -A
This command will list all processes that are currently running.

Looks like this
-------------------
bash-3.00# ps -A
PID TTY TIME CMD
461 tty1 00:00:00 bash
463 tty2 00:00:00 agetty
464 tty3 00:00:00 agetty
465 tty4 00:00:00 agetty
467 tty5 00:00:00 agetty
468 tty6 00:00:00 agetty


Then just find the process that has locked up and

kill 464

So we have now killed tty3

[jeager]

Thank you comtux. I could then go to /sbin and restart the getty or, will the O/S daemons do that :?:

[comtux]

Am sure that when you ctrl F3 agetty should take care of the request as your not actualy killing agetty.
But then again i could be wrong as i havent actualy tested this my self.
but as soon as i am done building kdegraphics from source ill try it and if all fails ill search for a sure thing soluton for ya.

[jeager]

Thank u comtux ( oder, vielen danke ). Always appreciate the pointers I get when I'm on this forum.

[beezlebubsbum]

Everytime that I see a "help me" forum post, I know that Comtux has already answered the problem before I get there.

[LinuxFreak]

Dear jeager,
Hello,

Alt + Function Keys will help

Best Regards.

[jeager]

Thanks one and all. Now I have to wait again for a tty hang.